Swans on Tea

(Rhodium being a very expensive metal)
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More video that doesn’t have George C. Scott saying, “My Groin!” The Science Of Ball To Groin at glumbert. (Some annoying ads — and nothing else — tend to pop up on the video) This time, tennis balls (the projectile, not the target), while last time it was a baseball, but with [...]

It’s a hand-held catapult-like device to chuck things, and yes, those projectiles are small nun figurines. So, it’s a NUN-CHUCK, just like it says.

I don’t show this off to just anyone at the office; I wait until I know them and use my judgement. But this is the internet. Caveat emptor.
I really [...]

One project over the last several weeks has been winding coils for the atomic fountains. There are two different requirements, one is the so-called “C-field” coils and the second is the MOT (magneto-optic trap) coil pair.
The “C-field” is the bias field in an atomic clock that essentially tells the atoms which way [...]